Improvement in fishing-line sinkers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFEIC c IMPROVEMENT IN FISHING-LINE SINKERS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,453, dated February21, 1865.

To all Awhom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, EBENEZER F. DECKER, of Southport,in the county ofLincoln and State of Maine, have invented an Improved Fishing-LineSinker; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in thefollowing specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, ofwhich- Figure l denotes a side View, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section,of it as it appears when attached to a line and its hooks. Fig. 3 is afront, and Fig. et a side, view of the staple and the arm or horse, asit is termed by shermen, which constitute parts ofthe said sinker.

The body A of the sinker, having the shape denoted in the drawings, iscomposed of lead. Out of the lower part ofthe said body an arm, B,'projects at an obtuse angle with the front face of the body, and hasthe hooklines a, b connected with its lower end by means of a swivel, G.

A staple, D, projects out of the upper end of the sinker or body A, andis connected with a ring, o, by means of a swivel, d. The fishing-line cis fastened to the ring c. The said staple D extends into the body Aabout half the length of the latter, and its two extremities or win gsterminate in two hooks,ff, which are hooked around ears g g, projectingfrom the upper end of the arm B, such arm also eX- tending into the bodyA. In other words, after the staple and arm are hooked together the bodyis to be cast on them, and in a proper mold for giving the requisiteform to such body..

By my mode of making the sinker-viz., by connecting its arm and stapletogether and casting the lead body on them after being so connected-eachpart serves to keep the other in place under the strains and blows towhich. they are liable while in use. Furthermore, the ring used forconnecting the line with the upper swivel will serve as a guard toprevent the swivel, as well as the head of the'lead, from .bein ginjured under the act of drawing the lead up against and over thebulwark or rail of a boat or vessel. v

When the line is attached directly to the head of the sinker or lead thelatter is very.

apt to become seriously injured by bein g drawn in contact with the railof the boat or vessel.

By the application of swivels to both termini of the sinker the sinker'can be turned around independently of either the line or the hooksuspension-cords, and so as not to cause 'either to be twisted while theline lmay be in use.

I claim as my in vent-ion- The combination ofthe guard-ring, the line,the swivels, the sinker, and the arms D B, the Whole being arrangedsubstantially as specilied.

'EBENEZER F. DECKER.

Witnesses:

H. E. FISHER, F. P. HALE, Jr.

